“If Trump recognizes Crimea as ours, lifts sanctions, makes an agreement with us on Syria and frees Assange, I will retire. Because the world will be wonderful.” This is how Rossiya Segodnya editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan commented the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. …read more Source:...

The Deputy Prime Minister reminded that Belarus-Ukraine trade totaled $8 billion in 2012, however, the figure has been falling due to objective and subjective reasons. “We have the potential to restore the trade turnover we had in the past within the next two years,” stressed the official. …read more Source:...

Lars Løkke Rasmussen travelled to Paris today to meet French President Francois Hollande and take part in the one-year anniversary commemorations for the victims of the gruesome terror attack in Paris last year. The Danish prime minister will take part in the memorial at the Place de la Republique in Paris, which will pay tribute to the 130...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had detained a group of saboteurs who it said were planning to attack military sites and vital infrastructure in Crimea. …read more Source:...

Sergei Shoigu and Aliaksandr Lukashenka. Photo: www.arms-expo.ru Last week’s visit by the Russian Minister of Defence clearly demonstrated the Kremlin’s intentions to undermine the image of Belarus as a country with a predictable and neutral military and foreign policy. The confrontation between NATO and Russia, as a manifestation of...

From his calls to jail his opponent to his conflicting statements about barring Muslims from the United States, America’s next president has provoked a striking number of questions about how he would govern. Here is an early — and surely incomplete — list of some of the biggest: 1. Will he seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton? Trump has egged...

Just when you thought things couldn’t get much worse for the European Union after Britain’s vote to leave the bloc, along comes Donald Trump. The anti-establishment Republican outsider’s upset election victory is a giant setback for the EU’s vision of a global order with a rules-based governance system, evidence-based...

KIEV — Donald Trump’s victory leaves Ukraine alone and afraid. The fear is that the new U.S. president-elect will choose warm ties with Moscow over the exasperation of supporting Ukraine, a country he described during the campaign as a “mess.” “Biggest loser in the world tonight — Ukraine,” tweeted Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador...

Donald Trump’s surprising victory in the US presidential election has unleashed unusually joyful reactions in Russia. Ukraine, on the other hand, is concerned that relations may suffer. …read more Source: Deutsche...